Organisational Behaviour

Stephen P. Robbins is Professor Emeritus of Management at San Diego State University and the world's best-selling textbook author in the areas of both management and organisational behaviour. His books are used at more than a thousand US colleges and universities; have been translated into 19 languages; and have adapted editions for Canada, Australia, South Africa, India and the Middle East. Dr Robbins is also the author of the best-selling books The Truth about Managing People (4th edn, Pearson, 2014) and Decide & Conquer (2nd edn, Pearson, 2015).  Timothy A. Judge is currently the Joseph A. Alutto Chair in Leadership Effectiveness at the Department of Management and Human Resources, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. Dr Judge's primary research interests are in (1) personality, moods and emotions; (2) job attitudes; (3) leadership and influence behaviours; and (4) careers (person-organisation fit, career success). Timothy has published more than 154 articles on these and other major topics in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal and the Journal of Applied Psychology. Timothy is a co-author of Essentials of Organizational Behavior (14th edn) and Staffing Organizations (8th edn). James Hunt is an honorary Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He served as Director of the MBA Program between 2011 and 2019, and as Assistant Director of Postgraduate Programs from 2012 to 2013. James has regularly designed and delivered courses on leadership, organisational behaviour and organisational change over his 32-year university career. James's primary area of research is the personality determinants of leadership style. He is the author of more than 60 published journal articles, book chapters and books, and is the recipient of nine awards for excellence in teaching at the University of Newcastle. Dr Nadine Campbell is the Academic Program Advisor at Western Sydney University in the School of Business. Nadine takes a very international focus on education, having lived in four countries - Jamaica, Canada, the United States and Australia. Her passion for organisational behaviour began over 35 years ago while doing her undergraduate degree at the University of California Berkeley. Since then, Nadine has taught in the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and throughout Europe. She has authored over 100 publications, including journal articles, books, book chapters, and opinion pieces on managerialism. She remains an active researcher in the areas of organisational performance and culture. Hamza Khan is a top-ranked instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University, a visiting scholar at Trent University, and played a vital role in developing Canada's first social media graduate certificate program at Seneca College. He is the best-selling author of The Burnout Gamble and Leadership, Reinvented, an award-winning entrepreneur, and a world-renowned keynote speaker whose TEDx talk 'Stop Managing, Start Leading' has been viewed over two million times. He challenges audiences and organisations to rehumanise their workplaces to achieve inclusive and sustainable growth. Cathy Ying Xu is a Lecturer in Management at the Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle, Australia, where she teaches MBA courses on organisational behaviour, leadership, and human resource management. Dr Xu's current research interests include employee voice and participation, strategic and sustainable human resource management, and the social, career and economic impacts of chronic illness on workers. Cathy's research has been published by top-tier book publishers and in journals such as Work, Employment and Society, the International Journal of Human Resource Management and the Journal of Industrial Relations.

PART 1 INTRODUCTION
1. What is organisational behaviour?
PART 2 THE INDIVIDUAL
2. Diversity in organisations
3. Attitudes and job satisfaction
4. Personality and values
5. Emotions and moods
6. Perception and individual decision making
7. Motivation: from concept to application
PART 3 THE GROUP
8. Foundations of group behaviour
9. Understanding work teams
10. Communication
11. Leadership
12. Power and politics
13. Conflict and negotiation
PART 4 THE ORGANISATION SYSTEM
14. Foundations of organisational structure
15. Organisational culture
16. Organisational change and stress management